Description

Jack Ogg's cabin at the former Kendall Mine, Groom Creek-Turkey Creek area, Yavapai County, Arizona, ca. 1968.

The Kendall Mining claim, was located within the Turkey Creek Mining District, on the eastern flank of the Bradshaw Mountains (Bradshaw Range), in Yavapai County, Arizona. The area was about 11 miles south of the town of Mayer. The placers in Turkey Creek were worked intermittently between 1908 and 1941, and small amounts of gold were recovered.

Early newpaper accounts of this mine included the following: "John Hutchins has found and located a new silver lode, the “Kendall,” in the Turkey Creek District." (AZ Weekly Miner, 2/23/1877, P4, C2), and "We have seen two fine silver bars, worth in the vicinity of $400, from 2 ½ ton of ore taken from the Kendall Mine, Turkey Creek, and worked in the Masterson mill.” (AZ Weekly Miner, 4/16/1880, P4, C1).

After the mine and mining in the area played out, the cabin was eventually bought by one-time Prescott Superior Court Judge, Jack Leroy Ogg. Judge Ogg (1920-2011), was raised in Yapavai County, graduated from Prescott High School in 1939, and served as Superior Court Judge beginning in January of 1959. Prior to that he served two terms as Yavapai County Attorney. He is buried in Mountain View Cemetary in Prescott.